Listening to Tea Partiers talk about the "radical Obama agenda" is rather absurd...

The Tea Partier from Kansas, Tim Huelskamp, just called it that on MSNBC. He was discussing the Tea Party victory over Eric Cantor last night.

Which, in my opinion, was lost due to assumptions by Cantor and the Republican Party. Cantor had won his last election with about 70% of the vote. He was rather confident he would win. So he went to a party thrown by Brent Bozell where he received the news that he was getting his butt kicked.

Why? Even his own internal polls showed him up by 34%. He lost by 11% points!

Gerrymandering does not guarantee anything when you have a primary opponent. Cantor, like most incumbents, assumed that the folks who voted with him the last time would do the same this time. It appears that many did not vote at all and many switched to his opponent. False assumptions defeated Eric Cantor, as much as immigration or any of the issues. Much like Dick Lugar, he thought he could run his campaign from Washington, DC, rather than in his home district.

Cantor is only the first. Thad Cochran is next in line to go. And Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are not sleeping well tonight.